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Name: ______________________________________________________Date: ______________Your Task: Respond to a text of your choice (independent novel, poem, short story, song) and write a well-developed, text-based response of two to three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text. Guidelines: Be sure to: Identify a central idea in the text Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis Organize your ideas in a cohesive and coherent manner Maintain a formal style of writing Follow the conventions of standard written EnglishDIRECTIONS: 1st draft: complete this worksheet before typing your Text Analysis Response. 2nd draft: create a typed analysis of the novel (Times New Roman, 12 point, 1.5 spaced); the typed response should respond to all guidelines above. Keep in mind that the worksheet is just an outline; the final draft should be a more developed, clearer response.Proofread and edit so your writing is mistake-free! Submit the assignment to both google.classroom and prior to the due date.Peer and Self-evaluate your Text Analysis Response through using the rubric. Heading: create a properly formatted Works Cited Entry, using MLA formatFormat for book = Last name of author, first name. Title of book. City of publication: Publisher,year. (Other type of source? Use )What is one central idea communicated in the text? In other words, what is an important, core idea that the writer hoped to communicate to the audience? Develop a thoughtful, rather than a basic, statement of the central idea. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________C) What is one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) that the author uses to develop this central idea? Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc. (etc. = _______________________________________________________)One writing strategy the author uses to develop the central idea is ____________________________________________________________________________________D) Analyze (identify and explain) how the author uses the writing strategy to develop the central idea. Identify specific and relevant evidence from the text and explain how the author develops the central idea in the evidence provided.Text-Based Evidence: Detail # 1 (copy word-for-word in quotation marks or paraphrase):____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Explain how detail # 1 helps the author develop the central idea:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Text-Based Evidence: Detail # 2 (copy word-for-word in quotation marks or paraphrase):____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Explain how detail # 2 helps the author develop the central idea:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(Continue identifying and explaining more text-based evidence, on regular lined paper, for a more developed response.) ................
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